Asked about principals' leadership role, Peters claims we've gone wrong by emphasizing the superstructure over the unit commander and by taking "leading" and "managing" distinctions too seriously. Vision and people skills are all-important. Unfortunately, schools have drawn from the worst of private-sector management and…

Since certification requirements for journalism teachers vary, the Journalism Education Association (JEA) created its own voluntary certification program that enhances state requirements and encourages teachers and advisors from different academic backgrounds to gain recognition for on-the-job learning efforts. JEA's program, educational benefits…

During 1987-88, the New York City comptroller allocated $800,000 to city's schools exclusively for promising, replicable parent involvement programs. Article describes successful programs involving two high school districts in Bronx and Staten Island. Success factors include strong administrative leadership, staff accessibility and cultural…

Offers a teacher evaluation model designed to help principals understand their role as instructional supervisor. The model can also help teachers understand the nature of the evaluation being accomplished, facilitate the delegation of formative evaluation to others, and reconcile two seemingly irreconcilable processes. (12 references) (MLH)

Discusses two propositions and two policies governing site-based management and the curriculum specialist role. The principal's role is changing from building manager to instructional leader. The role of department head or curriculum specialist is not clearly defined in the literature. However, the central office expert will no longer dispense…

Principals in restructuring schools are working in an increasingly turbulent policy environment that adds expectations but deletes little from their traditional roles. Two tasks form the basis of newly defined power relationships--delegating responsibilities and developing collaborative decision-making processes. Leading from the center means…

Compared to other subject areas, the arts seem more difficult to classify and evaluate. However, the arts' methods and content place them at the forefront of evaluation techniques that are beginning to permeate academic subject areas. Effective evaluation of arts programs depends not on principals' artistic expertise but on their ability to manage…

Legislators, school boards, and district administrators proposing more changes affecting schools and the principal's role should realize that many principals have little capacity to assume additional duties. Time constraints and external priorities are converting principals from instructional leaders to managers, while increasing their role's…

The national education goals developed during the historic 1989 Education Summit became the springboard for several federal initiatives, including the National Science Education Standards. The Standards define levels of understanding and abilities that all students should develop and recognize that many groups, including principals, share…

Concerned about the differences that sometime arise between teachers and administrators in implementing the curriculum, the author clarifies some educational and personal relationships between the two to promote a more effective instructional program for students. (Editor)

This author contends that student-teacher supervision cannot be done effectively in traditional ways. He discusses five myths of supervision and explains a program developed at Portland (Ore.) State University that puts the emphasis where it should be--on the supervising teacher. (Editor)

Describes models that will help principals to become more effective agents of change. (Author/MLF)

Research on effective teaching, combined with findings of the effective schools movement, is calling for teacher empowerment and new leadership opportunities for principals. This article describes a leadership pyramid embodying symbolic, cultural, instructional, and managerial functions. Principals will still operate at the top (symbolic and…

To be effective instructional leaders, principals and assistant principals need to know what's new in secondary school curricula. Education associations representing 14 subject areas outline the current focus, likely trends through 1990, and new practices in their respective disciplines. (MLH)

Examples of innovative applications of telecommunications are cited, and the importance of school administrators' acquiring computer literacy emphasized. What educational leaders should know about telecommunications and the computer age is outlined. (MJL)